Millennium 1: Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres

Un esqueleto de thriller tradicional de las películas de género de Hollywood, refrescado por las caras no trilladas de actores europeos de calidad y diseccionado en detalle por el excelente guión de varias capas, que trata incluso más de lo que bastaría para un buen thriller, y sabe manejarlo con respeto y de manera muy integral. Dos horas y media repletas de tensión, conociendo personajes interesantes y descubriendo el secreto oculto del mundo oscuro. Espero con ansias las dos siguientes películas de la trilogía del escritor Stieg Larsson, en la que se basa el guión, y tengo una curiosidad por ver su nueva versión estadounidense. David Fincher es una buena elección, es el único que no lo va a hacer mal. (12.07.2010)

Después de mucho tiempo, vi una excelente película de detectives. En Francia, Stig Larsson es extremadamente popular, por lo que la adaptación cinematográfica llegó bastante pronto a los cines. No he leído el libro original, pero como la película es muy rica en trama, creo que ha sido un éxito en su adaptación. La pareja principal, aunque muy diferente, me resultó muy simpática desde el principio y les animé. Algunas escenas fueron más crudas, pero todos estamos acostumbrados a eso en el cine escandinavo. No puedo esperar para conseguir la segunda parte en formato de libro y leerla en las cálidas noches de verano :-) (06.07.2009)

The whole trilogy is more or less about a girl who makes no compromises. Never and nowhere. And about a journalist who also makes no compromises in his professional life, unlike in his personal life. Never and nowhere. The whole trilogy is a feet-up watch which won’t make you want to put your feet up even a long time after reading it. And it’s adapted in a movie that makes compromises everywhere and in everything and it’s no problem to take a quick nap during it. Although part one is certainly the most difficult to adapt of the entire trilogy, the number of storylines being murderous. Oplev fails in not being able to decide whether to cut back the wealth of material in the book, just leaving the thrilleroid element or not. It would have been a shame, but it’s nigh on impossible to transfer what’s “extra" onto the screen. Where it flounders is that it includes a little of everything, but everything is just touched upon and nothing is investigated in depth, so it all just fizzles out. Which is a shame because those “post-Lingren" characters are crying out for a quality adaptation. But what is almost unbelievable is the casting of Lisbeth; I couldn’t believe it would be possible to cast her so that she both looks the part and can act too. Too bad the same can’t be said of Blomkvist. P.S.: I saw the movie before reading the book and even after doing so the overall impression was basically identical in both cases. (16.11.2009)

I didn’t read the novels and haven’t watched the other two parts of the trilogy yet, so I don’t know whether some of the apparently pointless things in this film will have any meaning in the future, but the fact is that they feel very redundant within the scope of one feature detective movie. That said, I believe in the principle that I call “pointless things happen” (not all the events that simultaneously take place in real life are important for the main event taking place, therefore, they too should be included in scripts – i.e. they don’t have to be directly causal), and as such, that relatively redundant affair with Lisbeth’s caretaker didn’t bother me at all. If the film had finished half hour earlier, I would give it five stars, but that pointless epilogue brought the rating down a point. (23.08.2010)

I've started reading the book, the film was first... despite the fact that in its complexity it cannot and does not want to match Larsson's juggernaut, it belongs in the top league given its atmosphere and processing. Oplev is an excellent stylist who films in a simplified form, but with a sense of logic and pace. I really, really like how the script cleverly shifted Mikael from a confident seducer to a closed weirdo – the Rapace/Nyqvist duet is absolutely excellent for the film's purposes. By the way, Noomi is extraordinarily charismatic and played Lisbeth perfectly. The film has very high quality equivalent for everything that it lacks from the book. The result is a contagious and catchy detective story... although it lacks the socially critical dimension of the original, it moves in its genre quite sovereignly. It's a very difficult challenge for Fincher... (20.07.2010)